Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Mo Marcus Briefly Visits the House of Secrets

It's
easier to find an artist by their work on one-shot secondary
characters than on established ones. Thus you don't want to ID the
pencils here by looking at House
of Secrets host Abel;
the soda jerk, in both of his panels, is a typical Mo Marcus character;
he looks like he fell lengthwise in
a vise.

Most
of the framing material in HOS
under Dick Giordano's
editorship follows a storyline through the introduction, the interludes
if any, and into the conclusion of the issue.
In #84 the intro leads into the first story but the conclusion follows
a different storyline out of the last story. I believe Bill Draut
pencilled
for
himself on the #84 intro. Since he did do full art on most of the HOS
frame stories Draut's inking the Marcus conclusion in #84 and
the
Dick
Dillin full frame in #82 does make them look at first glance like his
work.